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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 80

Couldn't Wait for Court So Went on Strike

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 August 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY. Wednesday.—Contending that it would take too long for its claims to be decided through the Court, 25 typewriter mechanics…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.) Summons Division

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 August 1941 · page 7

THREATENING CONDUCT.—Edward Parsons, of Merewether-street, Merewether, proceeded against Harold Parsons, of Lake-road, Wallsend, on a charge of threatening…

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Review Police Appeal Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 August 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The New South Wales Police Association wants the Government to review all cases in the past nine years in which members of the…

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Police Boys' Club Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 August 1941 · page 7

Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys' Club will hold a concert in the City Hall to-night in support of the Apex Club candidate (Mr. P. Leben) in the "Ugly Man" competition…

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In Court To-day Newcastle Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Fined for Betting

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 August 1941 · page 4

Donald James O'Brien (44), laborer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having used a place in Southon-street, Mayfield, for the purpose of betting…

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Preferred to Stay in Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 August 1941 · page 8

PERTH, Thursday.—In the Supreme Court to-day it was stated that a woman would prefer to stay in gaol to carrying out bequests to relatives under her…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 August 1941 · page 11

YOUTHS REMANDED.—Allan Jeffrey Hopkins, 20, labourer, and Harold Francis Burgess, 22, blacksmith, were remanded until Wednesday on £25 bail, on a charge of…

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Prefers Gaol to Carrying Out Mother's Bequests

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 August 1941 · page 3

PERTH, Friday.—Rather than carry out bequests to relatives under her mothers, will, a woman, it was stated in the Supreme Court yesterday,…

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Scott Street Annexe to Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 August 1941 · page 3

To relieve overcrowding at Newcastle Police Station, a section of the office has been transferred to premises at No. 63 Scott-street, on the…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1941 · page 7

CONDUCTOR CHARGED.—Charles Edward McDonough, 42, conductor, was remanded to September 22, on £20 bail, on charges of having driven a motor-bus while under the…

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Bright Court Succeeds at Moorefield

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 August 1941 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Bright Court, ridden by N. Brace, won the Jumpers' Flat at the Moorefield race meeting this afternoon…

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In Court To-day Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. O. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Youth Sent to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 August 1941 · page 4

Thomas Wilson, 18, laborer, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having, at Newcastle on August 14, knowingly sent through the post a…

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"Put Me in Gaol," Says Woman

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 August 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—"Put me in gaol; I would sooner die than go through this purgatory," sobbed Mrs. Elizabeth Gladys Beer,…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 August 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The case of William Fisher, 65, printer, who is charged with the murder of Jeanette Irene Walsh, was mentioned at…

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Protest at Award of Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 August 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—More than 5000 textile workers, 80 per cent, of them girls, condemned, but did not reject Judge O'Mara's…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 5

REMANDED.—John Paul Jordan, 29, labourer, was remanded to September 12 on a charge of having maliciously damaged a plate-glass window, valued at £15, the property…

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Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. O. Carr-Boyd. S. M.) Illegal Use of Bicycly

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 2

Thomas Stewart MeTiernan (46), laborer was charged with having, at [?] on August 13, taken and used a bicycle. value at £5. without the consent of the…

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Police Disperse Women Pickets From Factory

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY. Tuesday.—Police were called this afternoon to picketed the about 50 women textile workers who picketed the Alexandria Spinning…

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In Court To-day Newcastle Police Court Committed for Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 August 1941 · page 4

Allan Jeffrey Hopkins, 20, laborer, and Harold Francis Burgess, 22, blacksmith, were committed for trial on a charge of breaking into patrick Francis Mahoney's flat at…

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Second Window Smashing Man Wanted Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the second window smashing incident in the day, the main display window of W. J. Coote and Sons Ltd., jewellers, of George-street,…

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